The book on Vanbrugh that I have been working on – I started writing seriously over Christmas 2021 – seems suddenly a touch more real now that you can pre-order it on Amazon.  It’s being copy edited at the moment.  75,000 words.  It comes out in November just in time for Christmas, an exhibition at the Soane Museum in February a year from now, and Vanbrugh’s tercentenary on 26 March 2026.  A Vanbrugh-fest, I hope.

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